Kerry Hardie is an Irish poet and novelist.

Life and work

Kerry Hardie was born in Singapore in 1951, and lived in Bangor, County Down and was educated in the University of York. Today she is married to Seán Hardie, a writer and TV executive, and lives in Kilkenny. She worked for the BBC Northern Ireland and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. She has won a wide number of poetry awards and scholarships and residencies have taken her to countries including Australia, France and China. She is a member of Aosdána.

Awards

  • Hennessey Award for Poetry, joint winner, 1995
  • UK National Poetry Award, 1996
  • Michael Hartnett Award, joint winner, 2005
  • Women's National Poetry Prize, Twice winner
  • The Patrick and Kathleen Kavanagh Award
  • The Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry, Minnesota. [2014]

Jennifer Matthews, in Poetry International (q.d.; 2011)

Bibliography

Poetry

  • In Sickness: Poems (1995)
  • A Furious Place (1996)
  • Camping (1997)
  • Cry for the Hot Belly (2000)
  • The Sky Didn't Fall (2003)
  • The Silence Came Close (2006)
  • Only This Room (2009)
  • Selected Poems (2011)
  • The Ash and the Oak and the Wild Cherry Tree (2012)
  • The Zebra Stood in The Night (2014)
  • The Great Blue Whale (2017)

Novels

  • Hannie Bennet's Winter Marriage (2000)
  • The Bird Woman (2006)

Editor

  • editor, with Mark Roper, Ink Bottle: New Writing from Kilkenny (2001)

Further reading